Russian troops or their families have rarely spoken to the press about reported coercion - Alexandr Kulikov/APfrontline in UkraineA trove of complaints from troops and their relatives sent to the Russian Military Prosecutor’s Office and obtained by Bellingcat and The Insider revealed what appears to be a wide-spread practice of forcing and tricking soldiers into going to Ukraine.
“To his remark that Vladimir Putin's decree says that conscripts are not supposed to be sent off to the military operation, he was told: ‘Keep on watching TV!’” in an apparent reference tothat has portrayed the invasion as a war to liberate the Ukrainian people. The emails also included desperate relatives seeking answers about troops who were likely killed or have gone missing.In a lengthy complaint, the girlfriend of a soldier from the central city of Ulyanovsk pleaded with prosecutors to help her find her boyfriend she suspects may have been taken prisoner despite the fact that charred remains found outside Kyiv were identified as his.
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